This year saw the inaugural usage of a virtual reality clinical perfusion training platform created by a two-year collaboration between Clinical Perfusion faculty, students, and iEXCEL colleagues. This virtual reality training platform was introduced into the full Clinical Perfusion curriculum starting this Fall semester and made possible through the collaborative work of Nicole Insinger, Bill Glass, Jeremiah Wilt, Dylan Marin, Solomon Chee, Megan Crider, Madeline Love, and Scott Sanderson..
“Essentially, this is the product of our iTEACH values in action,” said Clinical Perfusion Program Director Scott Sanderson. “To see an educational platform that was the result of a robust, cross-campus, collaboration being implemented to better train our colleagues and subsequently serve our community, highlights the foundational value of collaboration and innovation here at UNMC.”
Not only will this serve as an instruction modality for clinical perfusion students but has a goal of providing supplemental training to Cardio-Thoracic Surgery fellows, Cardiac Anesthesia Fellows, and Nebraska Medicine Colleagues.
Due to the large equipment used, perfusion students could never practice their clinical skills at home. With this technology, they now can practice at home through their phones and/or through their virtual reality glasses. This is the very first, clinical perfusion specific, virtual reality platform to both have been created and implemented by a perfusion program in the entire country.